We’re going to talk about that time I almost got abducted by swingers. And when I say that time, I mean three hours earlier today. So let’s go right into the story. So today I got tickets for Dallas Startup. This year it was in Frisco. So I don’t get on the expressway. It was about an hour drive. I drove there. I’m networking. I’m talking to people and y’all know I have ADHD. So sometimes I can be a little bit naive. And so I met this woman. She’s a principal. I got her. I have Hi Hello, which is a digital business card. And so we got to talking and all that. And so she seemed cool and I was like, I’ll sit with y’all. So because I was there by myself, I told a little bit of my history, came from Philly, lived in Arizona, now in Dallas. Well, don’t tell people your business. All right, we sitting there and she was like, oh, I got some other people coming. We’re going to sit together. But I was like, cool, because I’m still going to meet other people. But it’s nice to have some familiar faces and just to get to know people. When we get in there, the lady seems like she’s the boss of everybody. She’s telling the one lady to sit right here. And so I just sit where I want to sit. And then she sits up front. She says other people are coming. She said, oh, I would love for you to meet so and so and so. They on their way. All right, whatever it was about nothing. So I just kept on doing what I was doing, which was at work and talking to people. So then the other people arrive and she motions to me to kind of talk to me. Somebody go like, do a little bit of nothing. And I said, so I’m looking at him first. I’m like, he ain’t too bad looking. But then I’m a single girl. I look down for a ring. Baby he had a ring on. I was like, why is she giving me the eye to talk to this man who has a ring on? Mind you. Whatever. Ain’t about nothing. Keep going. We watching this situation, watching the people talk, whatever. So he gets up. Now, mind you, a lady is sitting up front with this younger looking girl. She looks to be about 30. He looks to be about 45 maybe. All right. But again, it still wasn’t clicking yet, but I noticed some little things, but that could have just been anything. All right. So we sitting in the little board room. So he leaves, comes back, and he gives the girl that’s sitting up front some potato chips. The one that’s sitting next to the lady that I initially met. So then I look down again and the ring is gone. I was like, oh, they up to something. That’s when I knew something was going on, but I ain’t know what was. I was just like, whatever. So then things over. So I’m going to network, but I was talking to them a little bit longer and I never got to talk to the guy. Because I met him when we were already in the assembly. So I wanted to network with him and get his number and TPD does blah, blah, blah. So okay, we do that. And he’s talking to me about ABA. That’s my thing. Applied Behavior Analysis. He’s in a PhD program and he’s telling me all this stuff. And we seem to have a lot in common. Mind you, the lady and the woman was standing right there and she was like, I just wanted you to meet the lady in pink. And he said, oh, I like pink. I know y’all want to know what I got on today. Here is my outfit. They leave us to talking and we talking about ABA, getting real passionate about ABA. So then he gives me his bling information and I see her again. I said, oh, hey, I didn’t get your information. She says to me, if you have such and such information, you got mine. That’s when I was like, yo, that’s his wife. I was like, what in the swinger world is going on here? So I was like, yo, this is getting real weird. So then I’m talking to other people and I told them I work with kids that are autistic, have ADHD and all this kind of thing. So then I met this other lady’s son that was in the same group. So we talked a little bit. So I’m about to go and she’s like, hey, we’re going to someplace to eat. I said, she said, are you coming? I said, well, I wasn’t invited or whatever. Oh, come on, let’s go. She gives me the information to where they’re going. Mind you, in my head, I’m like, you ain’t about to go nowhere with these people because baby, something is going on that you don’t know nothing about. We walk on and I’m leaving. She was like, hey, where’d you park? I said, I parked this way too. So I asked her where the bathroom is. She showed me where the bathroom is. Now she walked me to the bathroom. We grown women, I don’t need nobody to walk me to the bathroom, but she walked me whatever. She’s sitting out there in the lobby and I come out the bathroom and she’s like, oh, I parked on this side. So we two, so we get, I get on the elevator with her. She get off, I get off, she get off. Then she was like, all right, I’ll see you in five minutes because she thought that I was going to go over to the place to eat with them, but I already knew I wasn’t, but I ain’t going to tell her that. I just was like, I’ll see you in a few minutes. I get in my car and I call my girl. What is going on? So I told my girl, she said, it sounds like some kind of stinger ring or whatever, like trying to get people. And then a few minutes later, the lady texts me again because my bling card, my hello card didn’t have my phone number. So she texts me, oh, we not going to that place. We want to a different place. Mind you, she ain’t know I wasn’t going, but I let her believe whatever. So anyway, it was crazy because my whole thing was this. I came to the network and as a person that sometimes misses cues, I didn’t miss that one because I’m a behavior analyst. So I watched everything that’s going on in everywhere around me. And the fact that I seen that he had a ring and came back and didn’t have no ring on as a way to trick me and to believe in he was single, but I had already seen that he had a ring. And when she made the, I, the older woman made the eye contact for me to talk to him, I was like, I don’t know this man. I was like, weird. So the crazy part about being a neurodivergent person is sometimes we can be very naive or we can appear very innocent and naivete. Let me tell you something. I was raised by a narcissistic mother. I had to always be aware of my surroundings and what’s happening around me and being a behavior analyst, I watch and I see everything. When that man came back without a ring on his finger, I knew something was up. You can’t tell me it wasn’t. And then when she, the wife said, I didn’t know she was a wife until when we was walking to the bathroom, the other lady was like, oh yeah, the husband and wife. And nobody told me, I just assumed. But when that lady walked me to the bathroom, it’s like the husband and wife team. I was like, baby, something going on. It was just getting clearer and clearer and clearer to me. So I didn’t go, but I want y’all to know people are out here trying to snatch people up and trying to make people believe they’re single. Because if I hadn’t seen that he had a ring on his finger before he walked away, I wouldn’t have known that he was married. Right? What gave me a clue is when he came back, I seen she had a ring on her finger. And when he came back from the, wherever he went, came and gave her a bag of chips and he had one, I said, oh, that’s probably his wife right there. All the while, I’m just putting the clues of the puzzle together because I’m like something going on. Meanwhile, the lady that I talked to seemed like she was the ringleader of everything. You don’t know who you’re meeting out here. Even though I was at Dallas startup to network and make business, I realized maybe I had given her too much information about myself because I’m open and I’m just like that. That’s the kind of person I am. I’m just really, really cheery, sunny, whatever. And I didn’t even really think I said too much. Enough for her to be able to size me up and try to victimize me. But if it wasn’t me being able to watch my atmosphere and know what’s going on, I would have been, who knows? They could have put something in my drink when I was there and all of that. I’m just speculating right now. But the fact that she walked me to the elevator and then she invited me and then they changed places was to me, something was up. I don’t know y’all. Don’t be inviting me to no dinners. Like I don’t know y’all. We just met. I’m laughing and keep keying. You telling me about your business. But I ain’t family. So anyway y’all, that was my day. Almost abducted by these people. Luckily I’m smart and I pay attention to my surroundings. But get into it. I guess I could understand why they was trying to snatch me up because a slim goodie like this don’t come too often. But baby I ain’t as naive as I look. Anyway, I love y’all. I need y’all to be aware of your surroundings. Be aware of who’s around you, what they’re doing, what it look like. Because that could have been all the way wrong. And I called my friend right away on the phone. My girlfriend like, girl let me tell you. She like, where you at? Girl I’m on my way home. She like, alright call me when you get home. You need people that care about your well-being honey because baby those people was trying to do something. That man and the girl looked like she was young though. The hairstyle she had. She had these braids. She looked like a young girl. What if that was like some kind of sting operation? I don’t know because he was clearly growner than her. I digress that ain’t my business but I did not know. Somebody told me there was a lot of swingers here in Texas but I’m new here. Child I got to watch myself at every turn because baby these predators is out to get you. I love you. I will see y’all in the next video. I don’t know what it’s going to be about but I told y’all we doing lifestyle business and creativity here. See you in the next video.